“What else is there for us to do?” she countered.
“And bring down upon us unavoidably the publicity which we have escaped at so bitter a price?” cried the elder Blair. “Have we not suffered enough from the scandal of his life, that we should be further involved in the scandal of his death?”
“He’s right, miss. It won’t do,” said the sheriff kindly.
“Silence is best,” said Sedgwick.
“What the papers would do with this,” opined Preston Jax, “would be a plenty.”
“My advice is to let be,” proffered Lawyer Bain.
“Yeh,” grunted the half-breed.
“Oh, are you all against me?” she cried. “Mr. Kent, you, too? Do you think me wrong?”
“No,” said Kent.
“Will you drag our name, hers as well as mine, in the mud?” cried the head of the house of Blair.